Israel’s perpetual crisis and the five stages of Jewish survival
The hotel’s new employee was puzzled when he passed the glass cabinet labeled “Use Only in Times of…
Torah scroll escaped Nazi Germany, found a home on Israel’s Gaza border
How wonderful to read the numerous press stories featuring the residents of the Gaza border kibbutzim celebrating their…
Benjamin Netanyahu must stop surrendering to haredi demands
The ultra-Orthodox (haredi) parties are exploiting the dissolution of the Knesset and the upcoming elections to extort as…
Women deserve dignity in Israel’s public mikvaot
The Chief Rabbi’s call this week for mikveh attendants to disregard a ruling of Israel’s Supreme Court should…
New Jersey congregation donates Torah to Beth Israel after fire
A New Jersey synagogue is helping Jackson’s Jewish community recover after a January arson attack that destroyed sacred…
New Jersey congregation donates Torah to Beth Israel after fire
A New Jersey synagogue is helping Jackson’s Jewish community recover after a January arson attack that destroyed sacred…
Israel’s police, security forces support and enable West Bank settler violence
What should an Israeli citizen do when the police and army don’t arrive for hours after being notified…
Israel Day Parade and Adirei HaTorah share an important Jewish message
On Sunday, two parades took place simultaneously, separated by a hundred miles but united by something far deeper…
The Blogs: Beha’alotecha: The Two Arks of Israel | David Harbater
In this week’s parasha we are told that the Ark of the Covenant traveled in front of the…
Israel must reclaim the Torah’s moral, ethics
Last week, we celebrated Shavuot, the festival commemorating the giving of the Torah. The Sages called it the…
What Shavuot teaches about Israel’s haredi military service debate
Mount Sinai and the giving of the Torah stand at the seminal moment of Jewish faith. God spoke…
The Blogs: Standing at Sinai, Building in the Negev | Saul Singer
Following my previous piece, “From Exodus to Leviticus: Community Building in the Negev”, I find myself continuing to…